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  Content sanitized for whose protection?

  It's a fascinating aspect of modern culture that even as we gain ever greater access to information, news and entertainment there are puritanical groups in our society who repeatedly attempt to push us back to some better, nicer, safer, prudish and, in many ways, more ignorant society. And the villain in the quest to "clean up Dodge" is not always who it might appear to be.

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  ICANN board approves dot-XXX top-level domain for porn

  Pornography will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided Friday.

• Google still censoring porn for redirected Chinese users

  Google is still censoring pornographic search results for users in China, even though they are now being redirected to a Google search engine that does not block sensitive political content.

• YouTube hit by thousands of porn videos

  YouTube has removed thousands of pornographic videos from its servers following a co-ordinated attack which succeeded in uploading a catalogue of inappropriate clips to the video-sharing site.

• Seven charged with using Craigslist to run prostitution ring

  Seven people were indicted this week on charges that they were operating a prostitution ring that advertised exclusively on Craigslist. The indictments are the latest in a series of blows to the Craigslist classified advertising Web site.

• Craigslist discontinues erotic services advertisements

  Online-classifieds site Craigslist said on Wednesday that it will remove the "erotic services" category of advertisements from its U.S. Web site in a week, after the site was criticized by law enforcement agencies as providing a forum for prostitution and other illegal activities.

• UK teens spend two hours a week watching web porn

  UK teenagers spend around two hours a week watching porn online, says Cyber Sentinel.

• Man busted for surfing child porn in Internet café

  A Sydney man will face court today after he was arrested on Monday for allegedly using a local Internet café to access child pornography Web sites.

• Chinese government campaign targets Internet porn

  China's government launched a month-long campaign to stamp out Internet pornography on Monday, with Google's search engine topping the list of Web sites it wants to see crack down on pornographic content.

• 19 arrested over ‘worst ever’ Internet child porn bust

  Australian Federal Police officers have seized "among the worst" images of child abuse they have seen following a global sting of an online network sharing images and videos of sexually abused children.

• ISP cut off from Internet after security concerns

  A U.S. Internet service provider suspected of aiding cybercriminals in online scams and hosting child pornography was at least partially cut off from the Internet on Tuesday night.

• The internet is no longer (just) for porn

  Social networking sites are now more popular than pornography, according to recent research.

• Computers seized in child porn raid

  A 37 year-old Sydney man was charged today following a raid by Eastern Suburbs Local Area Command detectives that allegedly netted hundreds of child exploitation images.